User blog comment:MentalZ/Valentine's Day/@comment-1399757-20110213194823/@comment-71.199.7.48-20110213224335

Neil: Agree on most counts, except Halloween...

Halloween doesn't have a deeper, Christian meaning. If you really want to go to its roots, that's dancing around bonfires and what-not.

Although I think that the modern, so called "dumpy" holidays that most people actually celebrate are now the true holidays of our culture. It's impossible to simply say that the "Real" meaning of St. Valentine's Day is anything other than what people celebrate it as in our current culture.